About Alexandra Kosteniuk
Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk is a Russian and Swiss chess grandmaster who was the Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010 and Women's World Rapid Chess Champion in 2021. She was European women's champion in 2004 and a two-time Russian Women's Chess Champion. Kosteniuk won the team gold medal playing for Russia at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012 and 2014; the Women's World Team Chess Championship of 2017; and the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017 and the Women's Chess World Cup 2021. In 2022, due to sanctions imposed on Russian players after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she switched federations, and as of March 2023 she represents Switzerland. Kosteniuk won the girls under 10 division of the European Youth Chess Championship in 1994 and the girls under 12 title at both the European Youth Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in 1996. Kosteniuk became European women's champion by winning the tournament in Dresden, Germany. At twelve years of age she also became the Russian women's champion in rapid chess. In 2001, at the age of 17, she reached the final of the World Women's Chess Championship won by Zhu Chen.
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